Improved bedstead and table combined



rrnn 'STATES OLIVIER LAFRENIERE, OF NET YORK, N. Y.

EMPROVED BEDSTEAD AND TABLE COMBINED.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,933, dated September15,1303; antedated December 12, 1862.

.To all whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that 1, OLivinR LAFRENIERE, of the city, county, and Stateotl New York, have invented a new and useful combination of a bedsteadand table, designed more cspecially for camp purposes and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, in which- Figure l is a longitudinal verticalsection or" my invention, adjusted as a bedstead, taken in the line :raf, Fig. 2; Fig. 2. an inverted plan ot Fig. 1, with the mattress orsai-.king bottom detached; Fig. 3, an elevation ot' the inventionadjusted as a table.

Similar letters ot reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

The object of this invention is to combine a bedstead and table in sucha way as to form a portable and convenient device well calculated forcam p use, and also for ordinary purposes where it is necessary toeconolnize in room or space. y

The invention consists in attaching to a circular or other suitableshaped plate or disk, folding orjointed legs, and using in connectiontherewith a sacking-bottom or mattress, all arranged as hereinaftershown and described.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A vrepresents a disk or plate, which may be of circular or othersuitable form, and having two sockets, O O, attached to its under side.The sockets O O may be formed cach ot' two parallel plates, a a, placedat such a distance apart as to receive the ends ofthe legs D, two legsbeing in each socket, and secured therein by pins or bolts b, to formjoints. There are two pairs of legs, D, each pair being connected by atraverse bar or rod, E, shown in Figs. l and 2.

The legs D are curved outward at their ends, as shown clearly in Fig. 3,and each leg is provided with a spur or project-ion, c. (Shown clearlyin Figs. 1 and 2.)

The disk or plate A and legs D may be of metal. That would be thepreferable material.

When the device is to be used as a bedstead, the legs D are distended,and a sacking bottom or mattress, F, is attached to the ends ot' thelegs D, the latter fitting in proper holes in the sacking bottom ormattress, the spurs or projections c serving as stops to prevent thesacking bottom or mattress slipping down on the legs D. The legs D arecurved sutciently to admit of the sackin g bottom or mattress being at aproper height above the ground or iioor. When the device is to be usedas a table, the sackiug bottom ormattress is removed and the legs foldedtogether, as shown in Fig. 3, the disk or plate A serving as the top ot'the table, as shown in Fig. 1.

The legs D are of such a length, and they are attached to the disk orplate A at such points, that when distended a bedstead will be formedot' requisite len gth, and when folded a table formed of proper height.

The device may be quite economically constructed, and it is verydurable, the parts bein g few in number and not liable to get out of repair or become deranged by use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the disk or plate A, legs D, and sackiug bottom ormattress F, constructed and arranged to form anew and useful article ot'manufacture, for the purpose specified.

OLIVIER LAFRENIERE.

Witnesses JAMES Laino, M. M. LIVINGSTON.

